Seaside and Prom Turnaround

Finishing up some posts/pictures from a few days ago: On our last day at Seaside (Sunday), in addition to going to Cannon Beach, we stopped in Seaside to get gelato and walked to the Prom (Promenade) Turnaround.

Seaside beach looking north - folks playing sand volleyball

My sweetie finishing his gelato in a waffle cone (they were very good!)

Looking west, straight out at the ocean

South down the beach

The Prom Turnaround with statue of Lewis and Clark in the middle and a Wyndham timeshare building behind. A salesperson was going around talking to folks standing at the turnaround inviting them to come inside to view the penthouse unit that was open for tours... I told her we had "been there, done that, and gotten rid of all of our timeshares"!

It wasn't until I was looking up information about this statue for the blog post that I realized that Lewis and Clark's dog, Seaman, was also included in the statue.

I read this on one of the Seaside visitor center entries:

During the winter of 1805 and 1806, salt became scarce and was badly needed by the Lewis & Clark expedition for preserving meat and fish, and for the coming return trip. Three men from the group were assigned to the beach some distance north of Seaside's Cove area, to establish the "Salt Cairn", also known as the "Salt Works". They worked continuously from February 2 to February 20, 1806, boiling sea water from which they extracted four bushels of salt.

Lots of Lewis and Clark sites along the southern part of Washington/northern part of Oregon coastlines.